RULES FOR HUSBANDS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 8

RULES FOR HUSBANDS.

“ONE EVENING OUT A WEEK.” A new method of disciplining husbands who abuse their wives has been evolved from his experiences of cases of marital infelicity by tho Long Island (New York) city stipendiary, Mr John Kochendorfer. Having decided that too many cases of this sort were coming before him, he has informed all obstreperous husbands that in future they will either go to gaol or accept this alternative: They must agree to: Prepare breakfast every morning; Wash dishes in the evening; Take care of tho children for an hour a day; Have one evening'out a week; Take the family every Sunday to church in tho morning and for a walk in the afternoon; Buy sweets and fruit for tho wife and children at least once a week; Allow tho wife to handle the family finances; Start a savings bank account; 1 Refrain from asking the wife to wait on him, but wait on hor instead; and Repeat once a day the promise made to his wife on marriage—namely, to love, honour, and cherish her.

“I propose to maTce bad husbands punish themselves,” Mr Kochendorfer said. “Probation officers will cheek up their performances every day, and after two or three weeks tho husbands will realise the monotony and drudgery of most women's lives.”